Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-09

PneegKss - CHRISTIANITY.
xhe EzaafsG Churcbes 81 shs Terrt.
esFT Gave Bndaspnsabfs ana Grass-
Eyang Kytaenes e Erens eroush
murssG fhs Pnai Rew EeaFs.
The ssaiemsnfa foiIogina. showins
tie wondsfful advances Of eharsh inter-
ssas IN the Tsrris1Ey. are presented win
much sasiMf assiou.
xHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL czURuH.
Ths Protestant EDisropal Chareh has
RAinsd greatly. AZ stated By Bish ~
Paddock IN his annual report for 1855 8.
tie aharch, during tbs Ave yaArs Of bis
eonneofion with Il, be received 100 GER
gous 81 baptism add IS By eoaefmsk toe;
ils heuses Of worship have decreased
IN number from sight 70 sixteen; twa
hospitals haze bsen b'dlt; she several
ehuEuh schools have 80 youth under
theiF inhasnoe: services have been held
uffh mere OF lsss FREQ 1sncy IN seventy
different places. and tue church property
has increased IN value from $4,000 &c
f310O0o. The conmanicants ef the
ehursh number $50; the sunday school
P4pias t%oa A17 N<0kfr k1-atA1 S9-AAet
1919. and the contributions lask year ee-
RFeesssd el2.i59.
EHE RAPrIsx cHURCH.
The growth Of thu Baptist CauRah
IN tbs Territory for i've years has be~n
almost unparalleled. 10 1881, there
we're bat Is churches. Wondering 394
members To-Day there are nearly 50
shnFohss with over 1870 members.
East Of the Cascade Mountains,
charohes have been crested at Walls
WaIla Sp9kans Falls, Cheney, Medical
Lake. 80 lnzlr, 0srisld and . school
bniIdioR at C0lfax. when will so9n be
replaesd By = $1,000 college edidce for
whsca over $500 d raised.
On Puget 5ouud. houses have been
erected as follows: Two az Seatile; tuo
Il rao0ma; one as Whatcoua, LaconneT,
gkaRit, M00ns Vernon, ChehaIis; heass
laERelg repaired At Osntralia. and school
Isud ssoured--zixteen houses in all cost
inc, with sites, over $4,000.
In 1881, there we're bat eiRht pastors
giving their time TO the wsrk; today
there are nineteen, aud more ara de-
sired.
seattle and oolfax are the two Rip
tsss stronghold bsina the 6rss entsred
and the largest churches Ia the Terri
t0Fv.
Colsax Academy vas the arst high
school north Of snake river, aud has
changed its charter TO . college auFing
the paat year.
The membsTship Of Seattle B sptists 10
greater today than the entire assoeia-
tioR IN 1881.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The hrss Prssbyterian Church organ
izsd 10 Washington Territory Gas
formed In the fall Of 1854 By tbs Rev.
Geo. r. WhitvoFth in Olympia. For
twenty years thereafter bat few churches
vera gathered and the work made slov
progress. 10 1876 the PreabytsFy of
Puget Sound was constituted, covering
then and nov all the Territory west of
the O0lumoia river. 10 1875 there we're
only eleven Presbyterian oaurchee 10 the
Territory. With Mss ministers and 69i
In the decade the
growth has been satisfactory. Nov
there are il she Territory 20 churches,
IS ministers, 1913 communioants, 2252
sabbath school members. and the whole
amount contributed by these churches
last year was about $1,000.
TEE METHODIST KPEscoPAL cHURcH.
This denomination was early on the
field with les missionaries. The Grs'
Methodist society was organic d At Fort
~, iiasoom IN 1853. by Rev. J. +. De.
Wore. Early 10 the year following
ehurohes we're organized IN Seattle and
Olympia, aud little later as Ciaqaato,
10 Lewis county. For nearly thirty
years all of Washington constituted q
al tFiot OF the Dragon Conference. bat
IN 1884 Was st OF ~ separate b7dy
known as the Pages SQUAD Conferences
West of the mountains this ehuFch en-
braces 81 separate orRanix atoms, 43
pastoral charges, As ministers (AIl but
I of whom are engaged IN regular ser
vicet, 2A5 members as church edinoes,
10 parsonaRes, and one Collegiate Iussi-
tute--property, all told, valued at $97
ilS. with 65 Sunday Schools and 285S
pupils Ia the same. All Of the counties
west Of the Cascades. except Skamania
and Jefferson, are occupied in some de-
gree by the eircui . and stations Of the
81. Z. Church; and healthful religious
growth is enioyed.
z lst Of the mountains ell the inport-
ant to1ns and leading settlements are
embraced In the regular operat ems OF
this church. There are som thirty pas
toral oeaTges IN thai section OF the Ter
FitoFy. and In point OF membership,
church property, etc.. the denomination
is relatively a. strong as It 10 within the
bounds Of the Puget Sound Conference.
Il IL 10 be regretted that no statistics OF
late date have come to hand; hence this
400 1unt Ia necessarily incomplete.
THE ooSeREaArIoNAL CHURCH.
This Church is repFess ted 10 tie
Territory by IS clergymeu, "a churches,
Ga stations aud schools. In the Terri
tory are three Assooiatians-the Puget
Soand, Yakima aud Upper OolumbiA-
End part OF fourth. the Middle Column
biA The membership SANDERS 1889
t02t familiea are uadeF pastoral care,
and si2 S36 vas contributed last year
| for ali purposes connected With the
church. NJ church has Rained more
rapidly shaa the Congregational OF late
years
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